Drying and stretching frame.



NO- 828,915. PATENTED AUG. 21, 1906. E. J. ALLEN & G. C. HANNA. DRYING AND STRETCHING FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-20.1005.

TH nanms PETERS cm. WASHINGTON, n. c,

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EDWARD JEFFERSON ALLEN AND GEORGE COURNELSON HANNA, OF GUTH RIE, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

DRYING AND SITRETCHING FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application fil d August 29,1905. Serial No. 276.248.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it; known that we, EDWARD JEFFERSON ALLEN and GEORGE CoURNELsoN HANNA, citizens of the United States, residing at Guthrie, in the county of Logan and-Territory of Oklahoma, have invented new and useful Improvements in Drying and Stretching Frames, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a stand or frame particularly adapted for drying and stretching lace curtains, although it is applicable for use as a frame for drying fabrics or goods of various kinds.

The object of the invention is to form an improved device of the kind comprising parts which are connected by joints, permitting the parts to be folded to various positions, as Will more fully hereinafter appear. When not in use, it may be folded to occupy comparatively little room.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the frame set up and in extended position, suitable for receiving lace curtains. Fig. 2 is a top plan view with the parts of the frame folded to a V shape, which is the shape particularly adapted for use when the articles are to be exposed to a blast in a drying-room. Fig. 3 is a side elevation with all the parts folded, as when not in use. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are details of the jointclamps.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates a base upon which is mounted a middle standard 7, consisting of a round rod or piece of piping. The wing bars or frames are hinged to this standard by block-hinges 8, of which the standard forms the pintle. The upper hinge particularly is slidable up and down on the standard and may be fixed in raised position by a set-screw 9. These hinges permit the wings to be swung to any angle with respect to each other. In Fig. 1 they are shown in a straight line. In Fig. 2 they are folded to form a support capable of standing any blast in a drying-room.

Each wing consists of upper and lower horizontal bars 10 and 11 and vertical bars 12 at the outer ends. The vertical bars are provided with feet 13, which rest on the floor. The bars 10 and 11 are pivotally connected, as indicated at 14, to the hingesS, so that said bars will swing in a vertical plane and I ipay be folded up vertically, as illustrated in The bars 10, 11, and 12 are connected by clamps where they cross. The clamps which connect the upper bars 10 with the bars 12 are shown in Figs. 4 and 5, and those which connect the lower bars are shown in Fig. 6. Each of the former consists of a block 15, having a horizontal opening 16 therethrough and a vertical opening 17, the former of which receives the bar 10 and the latter the bar 12, and at each opening is a set-screw 18 to hold the bar as set. The opening 16 is cut away on all sides or dimensions of the block, except corner-webs 1.9 at diagonally opposite corners, so that the block may be given a quarter-turn on its own axis with respect to thebar 10, which throws the bar. 12 in parallelism with said bar 10. The lower clamp, as shown in Fig. 6, consists of a block 20,having simply a vertical hole 21 for the bar 12 and a horizontal groove 22 for the bar 11, with set-screws 23 to hold each bar, and the bar 11 may be readily disconnected and lifted out of the groove. The bars 10, 11, and 12 are provided with necessary hooks 24 to engage the curtain or other piece or pieces being dried.

When the device is in folded position, as shown in Fig. 3, the upper hinge 8 is lowered until it rests on the lower hinge. The rods 11 are disengaged from the clamps 20, and the rods 10 turned up toward the vertical, with the rods 12 swung to substantially vertical position, which action is permitted by the peculiar construction of the clamps 15. The rods 11 are also turned upon the pivots 14 toward the vertical. This assembles all the parts in a vertical position around the central standard 7, and the apparatus occupies but little room. To extend the frame, as shown in Fig. 1, the upper hinge 8 is slid up to the desired height and fixed by its set screw. The rods 10 are brought to a horizontal position and the rods 12 to a vertical position with the feet of the latter resting on the floor, and the rods 11 are then led down into the grooves of the clamp '20. All the parts are then fixed by tightening the setscrews. The hinges 8, as said before, then permit the wings to be set at any desired angle with respect to each other.

It is to be noticed that the upper hinge 8 can .vice will be found very useful for domestic purposes and also in laundries.

Having thus described our invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1. A drying and stretching frame comprising a central supporting-standard, and ings hinged thereto to swing horizontally, the

hinges being slidable up and down on the standard, each wing comprising upper and lower horizontal bars pivoted to the hinges at their inner ends to swing vertically, and a vertical bar connecting their outer ends and foldable therewith beside the standard.

2. A j oint-clamp for the bars of drying or stretching frames, comprising a block having a recess therein-through which one bar extends, the recess extending around on all sides of the block except at one corner where V a web is left so that the bar may be given a quarter-turn in the block, andalso havinga hole through which the other bar extends, and means to clamp the bars in the block.

3. A drying and stretching frame comprising a central supporting-standard, upper and lower horizontal bars hinged thereto to swing horizontally, the bars being pivoted to the hinges to swing up vertically beside the standard, vertical bars which connect and support the outer ends of the horizontal bars, and clamps on the bars where they cross, said clamps being slidable on the bars to vary the size of the frame.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD JEFFERSON ALLEN. GEORGE COURNELSON HANNA. Witnesses:

GEORGE TIPToN, JOHN ORAIGH. 

